Reputation is also a force in onion land. There are hidden services that are trusted and those that aren't. You see it with the drug marketplaces - users self-

Reputation is also a force in onion land. There are hidden services that are trusted and those that aren't. You see it with the drug marketplaces - users self-organize a distributed reputation system that tells other users which sites can be trusted with bitcoin and drug transactions and which cannot. It's a remarkably well functioning and resilient system - and its hosted across reddit, forums, blogs, etc.